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February 19, 2010 February 21, 2010

My husband’s surgery is over and he is slowly coming back to normal. I spent Friday in my studio framing some of my recent watercolors and while I was tidying up I stumbled across an interesting phenomena. Recently I have been practicing Sumi-e and I made some practice paintings of bamboo. I found one of my exercises and thought “Why didn’t I like that? It is not that bad.” Then I realized I was looking at the reverse side of the paper. The Sketch Paper I was using allows the ink to bleed through and it had edited the painting enough that it looks much better. Hummm… is there a learning here? Edit, edit, edit! Keep it simple!

Oh this is really wonderful. Very well done. thanks for visiting my blog
peace n abundance,
CheyAnne
ps glad you painted today instead of baking cookies. I should be painting instead of being on this computer.

I was about to comment how much I liked this bamboo painting, but then decided to read the post before I did so. How funny! I still like the painting quite a lot, but there is indeed a lesson there. Sometimes putting some time between the artist and her work can produce interesting results.